Piercing Cold

In the Frost Mage talent tree, Piercing Cold sits in the Frost specialization talents, row 5 of 11. It is a single-point node. Its row opens once 8 points are spent in Frost Talents.

Connected above

The tree draws a line into Piercing Cold from Flurry.

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  Flurry

  Unleash a flurry of ice, striking the target 3 times for a total of Frostfire damage. Applies 3 stacks of Freezing.

Connected below

Piercing Cold leads on to Splitting Ice and Flash Freeze.

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  Splitting Ice

  Your Flurry and Frostfire Bolt spells strike 1 additional target at 50% effectiveness.

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  Flash Freeze

  Casting Glacial Spike has a 100% chance to grant you Fingers of Frost.

Same row

Also on this row: Brain Freeze, Ray of Frost, Everlasting Frost and Permafrost Lances.

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  Brain Freeze

  Frostfire Bolt has a 25% chance to reset the remaining cooldown on Flurry and cause your next Flurry to deal 50% increased damage.

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  Ray of Frost

  Applies of Freezing over its duration.

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  Everlasting Frost

  Casting Frozen Orb grants 1 stacks of Fingers of Frost. Damaging one or more enemies with Frozen Orb has a 3% chance to grant Fingers of Frost.

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  Permafrost Lances

  Frozen Orb increases Shatter's damage by 10% for its duration.